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Dante’s Blood by Anne Leone
As part of the fourth edition of The Three Crowns: Texts and Contexts of Medieval Italy series, the Center for Italian Studies is delighted to host a presentation featuring Anne...
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OVI-UND Seminar Series: Linguistic, Philological, and Literary Developments in the Italian Middle Ages
Each Spring semester since 2016, in partnership with the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano, the Center for Italian Studies sponsors a series of video conference seminars conducted...
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Primo Levi’s The Truce: A Guide to Returning to Life
Written more than 15 years after the end of World War II, in The Truce, Levi tells the story of his long journey home from Auschwitz after the liberation. This is an especially...
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Raphael’s School of Athens: The Medium and the Message
One of the most famous and influential paintings of the Renaissance, Raphael’s fresco of ancient philosophers under a vaulted hall is both a brilliant articulation of...
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Lenten Music Through the Ages
Get ready to embark on your own journey to Italy. This lecture invites you into the world of sacred music and how artistic, religious, and intellectual communities in Rome helped...
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A Hell of a City: Dante’s Inferno on the Road to Rome
This lecture is a guide to a few iconic moments in the Inferno (Hell), the first part of the "Divine Comedy" written by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. The story recounts a...
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The Thaw: The Many Meanings of “Truce”
The Truce, written in 1962, takes up where If This is a Man left off, recounting Primo Levi’s epic journey on trains, on foot, and on horse-and-cart, as he makes his way across...
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Primo Levi’s “The Truce”: The Reawakening
One of the meanings contained in the title of the novel is the idea of suspension of moral judgement. This is not to say that The Truce is a novel of forgiveness: rather these...
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Rome Book Club: The Journey
The Truce operates on several different levels. It is a richly detailed account of an actual journey of nine months, on trains, on foot, on horsedrawn cart, across mountains,...
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Raphael’s School of Athens: The Medium and the Message – Who was Raphael? The Artist, His World, and His Painting
This week we will meet Raphael. We’ll start in his birthplace and follow his travels and growth from a young orphan to an independent master. From Urbino, to Umbria, to...
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Raphael’s School of Athens: What is Fresco Painting? Materials and Process
This week we will learn about the fresco painting process: What were the materials involved, and how did the artist prepare and paint on the wall? Follow along as a fresco copy of...
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Raphael’s School of Athens: The Medium and the Message – What Does it All Mean? The Painting and its Subject
Finally, we come to terms with the School of Athens. How was it painted, and what does it mean? How do how it was painted and what it means intersect?
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